Removing climber

[SusanS]

He said I need to have a major clear out of plants  He said I have to many pots. I did give him a reply but I can't post what I said on the forum 

Angie 

There is no such thing as too many plants. 

Can you imagine how difficult it is with two gardeners trying to share the same garden especially when they like different plants. 

There's many a time I've gone to pop a perennial in only to discover someone has hidden a load of bulbs.  Darren blames the squirrel for moving things about.     

Susan

[Darren]

He said I need to have a major clear out of plants  He said I have to many pots. I did give him a reply but I can't post what I said on the forum 

Angie 

There is no such thing as too many plants. 

Can you imagine how difficult it is with two gardeners trying to share the same garden especially when they like different plants. 

There's many a time I've gone to pop a perennial in only to discover someone has hidden a load of bulbs.  Darren blames the squirrel for moving things about.     

Susan

I'm saying nowt.....

[ChrisB]

Is this our first forum domestic then?

[Darren]

Is this our first forum domestic then?

Not at all Chris.  There isn't a smiley for 'looks innocent', though the eye-rolling one would do at a pinch 

Anyway - I'm famous for saying nowt. I inherited some Yorkshire taciturnity from my granny. Ask any of my colleagues and they'll tell you.

[Brian Ellis]

Can you imagine how difficult it is with two gardeners trying to share the same garden especially when they like different plants. 

That reminds me of Dot and Mike Smith at the late (and missed) Hythe Alpines, they each had their own beds in the garden and space in the glasshouses

[Lina Hesseling]

My husband and I share a very small garden. But we both have our own part.

Otherwise it would be war!

Lina.

[Darren]

Susan and I have an informal division:

The area from the rock garden down to the greenhouse (including the plunge frames) is 'mine' but Susan often overwinters plants in the frames if she has not been able to plant them out yet.

The area nearest the house, which is more 'gardeny', is Susan's. I confess to sometimes helping the squirrel plant bulbs in here when my pots become overcrowded and Susan is not looking.

The woodland area at the very end of the garden is the 'neutral zone' which is shared, as is the fruit cage adjacent to it.

Susan also looks after the smaller front garden, though this also has many bulbs in it......  funny how they get everywhere... and in my defence - Susan can't resist those 'fill a dumper truck with daffodil bulbs for 50p' offers in the garden centre 

[angie]

In the days when my husband did gardening he was always filling up spaces. He thought oh there is a bit of brown soil. I could put a geranium there. Right on top of my trilliums or something else that was special. I don't know how many times he looked up to see if I was watching and there was a bulb stuck on his fork. Now that he has found golf he has no time to garden. Never thought I would see the benefits of him playing golf.

I have secretly moved most of his geraniums to the back borders. He hasn't noticed yet 

Darren I like how you use the word MINE but I also like how you are willing to share the space even if its just for a little time. Susan sounds like me, daffodils on special offer I can't resist. I have bought many a bulb that is on special offer or reduced. I then pot them up keep then till the following year and give them to my friends as a gift. They are always so chuffed.


Angie 

 

[ChrisB]

I do that with shrivelled up Primula denticulata at the supermarkets and such places, can't resist taking them and trying to make them live again.  Must be a funny quirk of mine I think.  Once they are thriving I'm not bothered about them really....

[Lesley Cox]

Can you imagine how difficult it is with two gardeners trying to share the same garden especially when they like different plants. 
Susan

As bad as two good cooks in the same kitchen I imagine.

[angie]

Can you imagine how difficult it is with two gardeners trying to share the same garden especially when they like different plants. 
Susan

As bad as two good cooks in the same kitchen I imagine.

Now I can't make any comments on that. I HATE COOKING, I can't cook, I don't want to cook but I LOVE EATING.

Angie 

[Lesley Cox]

I hesitate to ask but how is Derek fed?  Sorry, that sounds like maybe through a tube or something, but you know what I mean - I hope. I love eating too so can't imagine not cooking because then I'd not have control over WHAT I ate.

[Paul T]

Maybe Derek likes cooking?

Or lots of take-away meals. 

[SusanS]

Maybe Derek likes cooking?

Or lots of take-away meals. 

I know Darren enjoys cooking ....   

When we got married I was 'advised' to make a hash of one or two meals to 'encourage' my husband to learn to cook.   

Not that I needed to mind, as he already cooked for himself at home. 

My brother-in-law however specialises in takeaway  .

It works both ways mind, some of the lads I used to work with deliberately made a mess of the chores so that their partners / wives wouldn't ask them to do it again. 

[angie]

I hesitate to ask but how is Derek fed?  Sorry, that sounds like maybe through a tube or something, but you know what I mean - I hope. I love eating too so can't imagine not cooking because then I'd not have control over WHAT I ate.

All I can say is Derek isn't a fussy eater. Even when we have a carry out meal things go wrong with me. Our friends said they would pick up a Chinese carry out and I thought right get the oven on to keep the main meal warm whilst we have our starters. I put the oven up full thinking once they arrive I will turn it off. I forgot, popped the food into the oven and sat down to have our starters. When I opened the oven the containers had all melted. I have never lived that episode down.
Most of my friends say we will just go out for a meal or you come over to me. I wonder why. Forgot to say my first cake I baked went on fire, oh and that was the last cake I ever made.

Angie